About fifty years ago, many persons were fighting fire near Forked River. A sudden shift of wind brought the flames with such speed down upon the men that they had to run for their lives to a mill pond not far off; but one man named Collins missed the road to the pond and was overtaken by the flames and burned to death. The following is a case of a child lost in the woods:

About thirty years ago a little boy named Warren Conklin of some six or seven years of age, living at Barnegat, started to take his father's dinner to him in the woods, a mile or so from home. The boy got lost and search was made next day and for weeks after, and by hundreds of people, but of no avail until three months after, his body was found, partly decayed, close to where persons had been many times. The search was so general that it was estimated that it would have taken one man seventeen years to have gone over as much ground as the number did in searching for the boy. The feelings of the agonized parents of the lost child at such a time may better be imagined than described.

Tales of shipwrecks not only of foreign vessels on our coast but of shipwreck of our citizens, loss of life, etc. are so numerous as to be impossible to attempt to give particulars here.

Some of our citizens like Forman Grant, John F. Jones, and John Parker have lost their lives in nobly endeavoring to save the lives of shipwrecked persons, and many have received gold and silver medals for risking life to save life.